Before MILLER and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges, and TAYLOR, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

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Petitioner-appellant, Kermit Ketcherside, is presently incarcerated in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, pursuant to a conviction and sentence imposed on June 27, 1957, by the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. No appeal has been taken by Ketcherside from the judgment of conviction under which he is now in custody. The present appeal, allowed to be taken in forma pauperis by the District Judge, is from an order of that court denying him a transcript (at government expense) of the testimony received on his trial. Ketcherside has filed no motion in the District Court to vacate sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, nor any petition for writ of habeas corpus or writ of error coram nobis. He asks only for a free copy of the trial transcript for the purpose of preparing "his briefs and arguments."

Ketcherside's petition does not claim that there was any error in his trial or any illegality in his sentence. It may be inferred that he would like to search for something upon which to base a § 2255 proceeding.